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   Dec 11, 2019 · The Orthodox Church traditionally uses different colors to mark the seasons of the liturgical year, certain feast days and other observances. The colors of clergy vestments, altar coverings and cloths on icon stands (proskynetaria) will often change to offer a visual clue of the season or the feast day.

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   In the Orthodox Church, there are typically six liturgical colors used: white, green, purple, red, blue, and gold.

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   Why does the Orthodox Church use different colors?

   • The Orthodox Church traditionally uses different colors to mark the seasons of the liturgical year, certain feast days and other observances. The colors of clergy vestments, altar coverings and cloths on icon stands (proskynetaria) will often change to offer a visual clue of the season or the feast day.

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   What color vestments do Orthodox people wear?

   • As for vestments, when the Typikon says anything about them at all, it only specifies ‘light’ or ‘dark’ vestments, so local tradition is the only ‘standard’. In the Orthodox Church, six liturgical colors are used: white, green, purple, red, blue, and gold. Later, black vestments also came into use.

   The Liturgical Colors of Vestments in the Orthodox Church

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   What colors did the Roman Church use?

   • In the early 1500s the Roman Church came upon a set pattern of colors and seasons. They used five colors: white, red, green, violet, and black — although Spain was allowed to use blue as well. The Orthodox Church saw the use of colors used in the West and adopted (and altered) that pattern.

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   Are there black vestments in the Orthodox Church?

   • In earlier times, there were no black vestments in the Orthodox Church, although the everyday clothing of the clergy, especially the monastics, was black. In ancient times, both in the Greek and in the Russian Churches, the clergy wore, according to the Typikon, “Crimson Vestments”: dark (blood) red vestments.

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4. catalog.obitel-minsk.com › blog › 2017A Brief Overview of Liturgical Colors in the Orthodox Church

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   Dec 7, 2017 · In the early 1500s the Roman Church came upon a set pattern of colors and seasons. They used five colors: white, red, green, violet, and black — although Spain was allowed to use blue as well. The Orthodox Church saw the use of colors used in the West and adopted (and altered) that pattern.

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   Dec 11, 2019 · The Orthodox Church traditionally uses different colors to mark the seasons of the liturgical year, certain feast days and other observances. The colors of clergy vestments, altar coverings and cloths on icon stands (proskynetaria) will often change to offer a visual clue of the season or the feast day.

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7. catalog.obitel-minsk.com › blog › 2017A Few Notes Concerning Color in Orthodox Iconography

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   Aug 15, 2017 · In icons, therefore, graves, Hades, and the demons (e.g. the demons in the Ladder of Divine Ascent Icon) are always depicted as black, or as dark as possible with natural pigments. Consequently, Christ, His Angels, and the Saints are all depicted as light and illumined.

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8. catalog.obitel-minsk.com › blog › 2016The Liturgical Colors of Vestments in the Orthodox Church

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   Dec 28, 2016 · In the Orthodox Church, six liturgical colors are used: white, green, purple, red, blue, and gold. Later, black vestments also came into use. In some places, scarlet orange or rust color is used.

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   Each color is adopted to a particular group of feast or fast days. White, including in itself all the colors of the rainbow — is the symbol of God’s uncreated light. White vestments are worn on the great feasts of Easter, Christmas, Epiphany, Ascension and Transfiguration.